Shake-up in UP Congress by Rahul Gandhi

New Delhi: Amid mounting complaints to Rahul Gandhi, Congress today removed all the eight zonal presidents in Uttar Pradesh including two Union Ministers RPN Singh and Jitin Prasada and CWC member Rasheed Masood and brought in local leaders in their place.

Reports had it that Gandhi had taken a dim view of the functioning of the zonal presidents as several of them failed to visit even the district headquarters under their charge while some others did so fleetingly.
Along with the zonal incharges and coordinators, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi also appointed 31 District Congress chiefs.

Uttar Pradesh is politically most crucial state for the Congress having sent 22 Lok Sabha members out of 80 in the last Parliament elections.

The party, however, suffered a debacle in the Assembly elections last year as it secured just 28 seats in the 403-member House.
PTI